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Subject: Re: [Leica] The Decisive Moment or...sounds like another of those God Damn commie photographers is on some sort of socialist tear again!;-)
From: "Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 15:53:37 -0700
References: <000f01c1b410$cab4af80$0400a8c0@ccapr.com>

More at

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0202/howe.htm
see the nude Sygma photographers (hey - they are french)

or
http://www.epuk.org/

or
http://happythanksgiving.free.fr/english/
(see Henri's note!!)

Joking aside - this is the future of photojournalism - two mega agencies -
Corbis and Getty Images owning the majority of the worlds pictures (they
have already absorbed the historic Bettman Archive etc and now restrict
access)

tim a


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From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 3:01 PM
Subject: [Leica] The Decisive Moment or...sounds like another of those God
Damn commie photographers is on some sort of socialist tear again!;-)


> FYI - from the email summary of
> ------------------------------------------
> NEWS...
> ------------------------------------------
> Decisive support by Cartier-Bresson
>
> Henri Cartier-Bresson has issued a blistering attack on one of the
> world's largest picture agencies in support of a group of photographers
> taking strike action. The legendary French photographer wrote a
> hand-written letter to the Corbis-Sygma employees who are striking
> against the agency's decision to lay-off 42 photojournalists and issue
> new contractual arrangements. 'I am scandalised by the casualness and
> the cruelty of the massive firing by Corbis of 42 Sygma photographers,'
> he writes. 'The compilation of an image bank, as well stocked as it
> might be, will never match the work of an author.'
>
> Corbis took over Sygma - formed in France 30 years ago - in 1999. In the
> two years since the take-over, losses have accelerated and photographers
> have been in perpetual dispute with their new employees.
>
> (Read more in this week's printed issue of BJP)
>
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